Quotes About Music

I don't think that Simon and Garfunkel as a live act compares to Simon and Garfunkel as a studio act.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

I'm a studio rat.

I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy.

I walk into the studio and we're all so happy to see each other.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

Being in a studio is quite a creative and energetic process.

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I feel like you listen your whole life, so when you are in the studio, your references are all the songs and music that you know. It just depends on where the songs are going and what attracts you at the moment.

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.

I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people.

I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

When I went to Gabriel Roth's studio, I showed him I was good with my hands and started working as a handyman in his studio. I asked him for a chance, and he gave me a song to sing with Sharon Jones.

Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they were a good idea, maybe they weren't. I took them into the studio and developed them. They came to life and they evolved... and they're great.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

When I went into the studio I created a sound that I wanted to hear.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'